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<p>Of <i>Plan B</i>, an interim volume that included several of the poems in <i>Maggot</i>, Robert McCrum recently said in the London <i>Observer </i>that "Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection." In his eleventh full-length book, Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of <i>Maggot</i>, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are "sex and the dead," Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. It's no accident that the centerpiece of <i>Maggot </i>is an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. The last series of linked lyrics, meanwhile, takes as its subject the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal automobile accidents. The extravagant linkage of rot and the erotic is at the heart of not only the title sequence but also many of the round songs that characterize <i>Maggot</i>, an

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Author

Paul Muldoon - undifferentiated, Paul Muldoon

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429964883

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.54 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14